Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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Foreigner number two. I 1 AXS MUMM, Jk. Hans was born in Schleswig. Germany, July 21. 1878. When two years old. he started toward America, never stopping until Rosalia was reached. Here Hans attended a little red country school house. When seventeen he entered the State Nor mal School at Cheney and remained a year and a half. On February 22. 1897. entered Department of Civil engineering W. A. C. Has been on base ball team every year and is captain ‘oi ; was on the track team of 00: warbled in the (dee Club; attained the rank of captain in the Cadet Corps: received ap pointment as United States Deputy Mineral Sur¬ veyor for Idaho in 1900. Thesis: “Ratio Between the Rainfall and the Runoff in the Palouse Valley.” FRANK FIELDING NALDER. the other for¬ eigner, started toward the day o f examinations at Penshurst. Province of Victoria. Australia, Novem¬ ber 4. 1874. The first seven years of his life were spent in New Zealand, coming to America in t88. . He settled on a farm near Waitslnirg. Washington. In his eighteenth year entered Waitsburg Academy. In the year of ' 96-97, he entered the class of Naughty-One at W. A. C. Was lieutenant in the Ca del Corps, 98- vj. Orator 011 Washington’s birthday program for the Washington. ‘00. Member of inter¬ collegiate debating team, in debate with the U. of W.. 99. and leader of the team. ’oo. Won first prize in State Anti-Saloon League’s Oratorical Contest at Se¬ attle, ' oo. between Whitman. U. of W. and W. A. C. Local editor Evergreen. ' 98-’99; editor-in-chief. ’00- oi. Thesis: “The Government Ownership of Rail¬ roads in Australia.” GRACE LULA COLBURN is a farmer’s daughter, having begun life in Latah County, Idaho. July 20. 1880. So you see. she is the youngest of the grave and reverend tribe. Well. Grade went to “dcestrick skulc” near Deep Creek until some time in March, 1896, when she joined the Naughty-Ones. Her favorite color is la ender; her predominant characteristic, loyalty. She represented the class at Senior Prep. Graduation, also the Washington So¬ ciety on Washington’s birthday in 99. She has taken the English course and will submit a thesis on “The Indian in American Literature.”

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Among the Seniors there are lour foreigners: CHARLES CENTENNIAL CARLISLE is one nf these, having been horn in Washington Countv. Arkansas. April 11. 1876. lie migrated to Oakes- dale in 1S84. In 1892, after two years’ attendance, graduated from the public schools of Oakesdale. Desiring to see the world, he went to California, but after two years, returned. In 1896 he entered the Senior Prep. Class at the W. A. C. where he has pursued the Civil Engineering course. He has been prominent in military circles, been private, sergeant, second and first lieutenant, “quarter-horse’ and adjutant. He is now an inspector in Ferry Hall. Has been president of the Websterian for one semester this year. Thesis: “Water Measure¬ ments.” WILLIAM EDWARD MASH BURN, the das, president for two years—one by choice and one by inclination—is also a part of the foreign element He began his pilgrimage through the vale of tears at Fayetteville, Arkansas. November 21. 187.4. In company with the other members of his household he migrated to the United States in 1881. Entered the W. A. C. in the fall of ’05 and took a business course, after which he discontinued his education for a year. In ' 07 he returned and entered the Elec trical Engineering course. During his Sophomore year “Jimmy” was president of the Columbian So¬ ciety and the (dee Club. Charter member of the S. C. L. Thesis: “A Cross Compound ' Fraction Engine for Burch’s Boiler.”

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according to his own statement, began life on a farm near Ulv Summit, in New York. He assigns April ig, 1873. as the date. Attended the common schools and a seminary at Easton, New York, also the high school at Greenwich in the same stale. While yet seventeen, he began teaching school, and at nineteen years of age came to Washington. I le taught one term, and went to California to recup¬ erate. A year later he returned to Washington and entered the Prep, department of the W. A. C. He finished the Freshman year then, taught country school, returning to college in ’t;8. Was captain of Company ‘‘IF’: has done a good deal of tutoring, and has starred for two years as an inspector in Ferry Hall. Thesis: “ ' Design of Traction Engine Boiler and Running Gear.” CHARLES TI. GOODSELL, otherwise Fat” was born at Howard Lake, Minnesota, November 23. 1879. After a checkered earlier career, he came to Spokane, which lias since been his home, lie entered the NY. A. C. in the fall of ’95, and look¬ up the course in Mining Engineering. Has starred on the football team for six. seasons. Was on the track team tor two years. Knows more tales about old limes in the Dorm, than could he recorded in a year. President Mining Engineers’ Association, ’oo; vice president, ’99. and president of the Ath¬ letic association, ’oo-’ot. Took a prominent part in the changing of the college colors. Thesis “The Development of a Silver-Lead Mine in the Coeur d ' Alenes.” •J PATRICK J. LYNCH was not born in the “ould country. He started toward fame and for¬ tune at Chehalis, Washington. March 12, 1878. He says he received some early education in the coun¬ try schools on the borders of the Yakima Indian Reservation. After spending three years in the State Normal at Ellenshurg. entered the W. A. C. in the fall of ' 97, and enrolled in the Mining En¬ gineering Course, believing that was the host course in school, and that there is nothing loo good for the Irish. Last fall he gave the powers to under¬ stand that for his degree he would submit a thesis on The Development of a Mine.”